Horse (disambiguation)

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The word horse has a number of uses:

Contents 1 The animal 2 Equipment 3 Music and musicians 4 Other people 5 Games 6 Other 7 Compound forms

[edit] The animal

• Horse, a large mammal domesticated for thousands of years. A member of the Equidae family.
  • Also, the wild horse from which this animal evolved
  • Sometimes used to refer to a stallion, as opposed to a mare or a gelding
• Horse meat
• A cavalry unit; sometimes part of the official name of a mounted regiment.
• Horse worship
• Horses in Warfare

[edit] Equipment

Items built roughly with a horse's silhouette such as:

• Vaulting horse in gymnastics,
• Pommel horse in men's gymnastics,
• Punishment horse,
• Wooden horse, used in bondage,
• Woodworking tools such as the sawhorse and shave horse.

[edit] Music and musicians

• Band of Horses, an American indie rock band.
• Horses (album), by Patti Smith, 1975.
• HORSE the Band is an experimental hardcore band.
• Horse, vocalist/musician.

[edit] Other people

• Crazy Horse, Lakota leader
• George Horse-Capture, Native American writer and anthropologist
• Many Horses, an Oglala Sioux spiritual leader
• Moses J. "Chief" Yellow Horse (1898-1964), the first full-blooded Native American to play in the Major Leagues

[edit] Games

• Horse, a game played with a basketball
• Slang for a starting pitcher in baseball
• An informal name for the knight in the game of chess; its equivalent is the only common name in various languages.
• H.O.R.S.E., a form of poker.

[edit] Other

• In the Vodou faith, a "horse" is a ritualist who is possessed by a spirit known as a Loa.
• Slang for heroin.
• Horse, a zodiac sign in Chinese astrology.
• The Yakolev Yak-24 Horse, a Soviet transport helicopter.
• The Horse is slang for Kicking Horse Mountain Resort.

[edit] Compound forms

• A geologic horse, a technical term in structural geology.
• "Iron horse", an archaic term for a locomotive.
• Horsepower, a measure of power in physics.

• Holistic Operational Readiness Security Evaluation (HORSE) project Wiki.